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Tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of the birth of Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopaedia launched as an experiment on 15 January 2001 and now ...

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Gregory Kohs
14 January 2011 at 13:41

Speaking of "lazy journalists", how about those who think Jimmy Wales was "founder" of Wikipedia, when it was Larry Sanger who championed the idea of installing a wiki architecture to create encyclopedia content, Sanger who named it "Wikipedia", and Sanger who issued the first public call for participation?

I guess the laziness of some journalists shows no bounds.

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